Alison Keith, PhD
Biography:
Alison Keith is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. She received a BA in Honors Classics from the University of Alberta and an MA and PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan. Keith is the author of several books, including
A Latin Epic Reader: Selections from Ten Epics (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012),
The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 (University of Michigan Press, 1992),
Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and coeditor (with Stephen Rupp) of
Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007). She has written extensively on the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature.